The Georgian State Commission for Coordination of NATO Integration has adopted the 2011 Annual National Program (ANP) for membership in the alliance.
The document containing Georgia's plans for political, economic, defense, legal, security and education reforms will be sent to the NATO headquarters for consideration, Minister for European & Euro-Atlantic Integration Giorgi Baramidze said in a statement on Wednesday.
A meeting presided over by Baramidze, who is also Georgian Deputy Prime Minister, approved the Annual National Program for the current year.
The program, along ...

he heads of state and government of NATO member countries met in the Portuguese capital to discuss some of the most challenging issues the Western alliance is facing today, from the ongoing operations in Afghanistan to the collective missile defense system and uneasy relations with Russia.
For Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who also attended the summit, this was an additional opportunity to hold meetings with and garner support from individual NATO leaders and engage in active discussions related to his country’s security problems and modernization reforms. While ...

Georgia's delegation to a Nato summit in Lisbon last weekend has been accused of spiriting eighty prostitutes into a hotel used by the French president for a raucous party.
Nicolas Sarkozy was personally 'annoyed' by the behaviour of the Georgian delegation, the paper claimedPhoto: EPA
Portugal's Correio da Manha newspaper reported that police had been called to a top Lisbon hotel after the French delegation at the summit as the Georgians complained about the noise.Nicolas Sarkozy was personally "annoyed" by the behaviour of the Georgian delegation, the paper claimed.When ...